Stigmella freyella (Heyden, 1858)

Navickaitė, Asta, Diškus, Arūnas & Stonis, Jonas R., 2014, An updated checklist of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of the Crimea, Sub-Mediterranean SE Europe, Zootaxa 3847 (2), pp. 151-202 : 154

4. Stigmella freyella (Heyden, 1858)

( Figs. 12, 13 , 64 )

Host-plants. Convolvulus arvensis L. in the Crimea; in other regions also C. althaeoides L. and Calystegia sepium (L.) R. Br.

Type of distribution (chorological group). West-Palaearctic; the species occurs from North Africa and Spain to central European Russia and Tajikistan.

Material examined. CRIMEA: 3♀, 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leaf-mines on Convolvulus arvensis L., fieldwork card no. 5015, 17.vii.2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide nos AN529♀, AN530♀, AN531♀; 50 km SE Feodosiya, Sudak, empty leaf-mines on Convolvulus arvensis L., fieldwork card no. 5015, 07.viii.2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.

Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: limited in distribution but abundant.

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 15. Leaf-mines of the Nepticulidae species occurring in the Crimea. 8, Stigmella confusella on Betula pendula; 9 – 10, S. irregularis on Pyrus elaeagnifolia; 11, Simplimorpha promissa on Cotinus coggygria; 12, 13, Stigmella freyella on Convolvulus arvensis; 14, S. tiliae on Tilia cordata; 15, S. paliurella on Paliurus spina-christi.

FIGURES 62 – 65. Genitalia of the Nepticulidae occurring in the Crimea. 62, Simplimorpha promissa, male genitalia slide no. AN 511; 63, Stigmella irregularis, male genitalia slide no. AN 538; 64, S. freyella, female genitalia slide No. AN 529; 65, S. tiliae, male genitalia slide No. AN 493.